Thurstan Challenge Completed

Yes, dear friends, my self-imposed Thurstan Challenge is complete. Here’s the copies of the remaining Edgar Thurstan illustrations, compared with Thurstan’s originals on the right. I’m tempted to say that it’s been harder this week, since the last five have all been pretty detailed, complicated illustrations, and more complicated than almost all of the Tenniel illustrations. They may not look like it but each one has taken hours to complete.

Carrying them out has convinced me that pretty much all of Edgar Thurstan’s 21 Alice illustrations do owe something to Tenniel to a greater or lesser extent. I go into a lot more detail about this in the Edgar Thurstan – Tenniel Clone or Unfairly Forgotten Alice illustrator page in my links section.

Here's the last few illustrations :-